As China's first poetry collection, The Book of Songs has a wide range of contents. Among them, sacrificial poems are unique, with strong religious flavor and distinctive ideological characteristics, reflecting rich cultural connotations. Sacrificial poems in The Book of Songs express the contents of offering sacrifices to mountains and rivers, and offering sacrifices to agricultural gods. , but most of them are ancestral chapters. Its outstanding features are strong religious ideas and distinct political purposes, as well as vague descriptions of ancestors and gods. It shows a spiritual effort to trace the roots of one's distant ancestors in retrospect and turn tradition into survival skills.
The appearance of sacrificial poems is a cultural phenomenon and a product of the development stage of human culture. The sacrificial poems preserved in The Book of Songs are a collection of Zhou people's religious views, destiny views and values in the literary field at that time, reflecting the spiritual outlook of that era. In a word, the sacrificial poems in Ya and Ode show that people dig their roots in historical retrospect, link history with reality, and transform tradition into existing spiritual efforts.